Egg and Cress

This is really cool! It says the repellent is made with "Geraniol" - do you suppose thats from the geranium plant? I know people plan marigolds to fend of garden pets among the veggies and I think the marigold and the geranium are related.

$30 isn't a bad price - how much are the refills? I didn't see them advertised.

Egg and Cress

Guess that would work better for a mass of bites. Glad it works for you - haven't had seed tick bites, but chiggers usually drive me mad - next time I'll try your method.

Jerseygirl

The refills are here. They last for ages...longer than it says.

Geraniol.

scotia123

Come up in huge welts from mozzie bites and they last for days!!!...but now use Skin so Soft and have found that it really does work for me.

penguinbar

I was a camp counselor at sleepaway camps for several years. Always brought up plenty of skin so soft. It really works!

Jerseygirl

The problem I find with creams and sprays is if I miss a little bit the bugs zoom in on the untreated bit. I find the little fan devices much more effective. Also many of the creams and sprays contains chemicals that melt plastic...I am not putting anything like that on my skin.

Egg and Cress

Thanks! I always forget about Wikipedia being available for information! If the town stops spraying for mosquitoes in our area, this little gadget should come in handy. (spraying is so double-edged - it's fatal to the mosquitoes but also to the fireflies I so dearly love to see )

Sheepdip

Have a number of supposed mozzy repelling plants in the garden (and the Bounce rags etc.) but they're still there in force! I do find that treating the garden with one of those hose-end bug sprays reduces them for a couple of weeks but the fact that we have a large pond probably doesn't help!

Can't say the bites bother me apart from the potential nasty diseases they might carry.

Egg and Cress

Summer Romance

You appeared from no where and shamelessly, without any reservations,
You laid on my naked body...
You sensed my indifference, so you applied your hungry mouth to me Without any guilt or humiliation,
And you drove me near crazy while you drained me.
Finally, I drifted off to sleep.

Today when I awoke, you were gone.
I searched for you but to no avail.
Only the sheets bore witness to last night's events.
My body still bears faint marks of your enthusiastic ravishing, making
it all the more difficult to forget you.
Tonight, I will remain awake, waiting for you........















F##king mosquito!!!!!

dakota44

I can handle mosquito's. At least you can hear the damn mosquito coming. It was those tiny ****ing black flies that drove me crazy in Canada. Hell, they bite so nasty that they chase Moose out of the woods. Nasty little bastards leaving a bloody mess behind.

Jerseygirl

One of those little buggers bit the top of my foot last week...didn't half hurt. Left a trail of blood down my foot. Fortunately I didn't react to the bite.

dakota44

It is odd that sometimes you don't feel the bite. More often than not actually. But when you do feel them, they hurt. We were forever cleaning up bites on our kids when we were at the cottage and even when they were in the back yard. They had long hair and there were always a bucket load of black flies caught in there if they had been out for long. Under the hair their necks would be covered with bites. Fortunately none of them ever reacted to the bites either. One of our friends had a son who was bitten on the ear and it had swollen to about three times normal size. It was hilarious, I hate to say. We thought he was wearing a fake ear when we arrived at their house and we laughed and said she should take it off.

keira-2007

I heard that it's the odor that we give off from our breath and skin... and I'm not being derogatory towards smelly bastards! Some people have the odor that mozzies love... and I'm one of them. You can guarantee that if there's a mozzie in the air anywhere around 20 feet of me, it'll sniff me out and have chewed on my follicles before I've even shut my flippin' door.

And my bites swell up really huge and leave ugly bruises. It's the same for my daughter. Yet hubbie mustn't smell too sweet to the little buggers. They always leave him alone.

Jeez, summer is great, but if you can't leave the house because you know you're going to get munched on for some bugs breakfast, then it can make getting fresh air a real challenge.

Jerseygirl

I've heard that too...also that they bite most people but some of us have an allergic reaction.

Leslie

I call the governor's office to report my mosquito bites. They seem to really appreciate it.